Adger Williams wrote: > As to whether it is faithful to change case when transcribing, I have to ask > just how faithful we are in our transcription if we don't use the same font > as the chief source of information. I think we would probably all agree that > matching fonts is clearly impossible (and insane anyway). So, our > transcriptions is, in even the best of circumstances, not an exact rendition > (link to .jpg for that). In that case, shouldn't we make our data easy to > read by using lower or mixed case.
Precisely. The point is transcription, not reproduction. After all, we are creating METAdata, are we not? The title page presentation is the original data to which the bibliographic data is "meta". The purpose of the metadata is to lead the user to the data, not reproduce it. Kevin M. Randall Principal Serials Cataloger Bibliographic Services Dept. Northwestern University Library 1970 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-2300 email: [email protected] phone: (847) 491-2939 fax: (847) 491-4345
